A Doctor (Two Volumes)

This set comprises two works, A Doctor's Reflections and A Doctor's Poems and Writings. A Doctor's Reflections gathers Lang Jinghe's reflections and conclusions, over decades of medical practice, on how to conduct oneself, how to do one's work, and how to practice medicine; it is a work in which he takes up the pen to dissect and diagnose social ills, offering a doctor's alternative observations on society, people, and things. The author is a scientist of high academic standing and a physician of deep cultivation. With a humorous touch, he ingeniously recombines and parses familiar words and phrases, his writing sharp and full of tension, leaving the reader thoughtful. A Doctor's Poems and Writings is a small book of humanistic sensibility presented in the form of aphorisms, maxims, and poems. It is divided into four parts—philosophical reflections, medical reflections, reflections on gratitude, and reflections on travel—and includes a number of images. These are poetic reflections on work, life, and reading written amid a busy schedule of clinical practice, teaching, and research, with particular attention to probing human nature, emotion, and philosophy—expressing a veteran doctor's spiritual attunement and generous spirit. It is a union of warm feeling with cool reason, a convergence of science and art, the poetry of science and the science of poetry. The manuscript also includes his short poems expressing gratitude to and remembrance of his teachers, as well as various handwritten pieces in a distinctive style.